"Creating a garden doesn't need to be complicated." This is the promise from Adam Frost, BBC Gardeners' World presenter and winner of multiple Chelsea Flower Show gold medals.
Regardless of your experience or budget, with Adam's help and know-how you can design your dream garden, whether it's a small urban garden, a classic cottage garden, a suburban front garden, a low-maintenance space or a city roof terrace. His practical, no-nonsense approach strips away complex garden design concepts and focuses on your needs and preferred garden style to help you plan and build a garden that works for you.
Starting right at the beginning, Adam takes you step by step through the whole process, inspiring you with simple garden design ideas to tackle a full garden makeover or a simple revamp of just one part of your garden, perhaps a tired herbaceous border, the patio, or a water feature.
Learn how to design a garden that reflects your practical needs, lifestyle, budget, personality, soil, and climate.
Build it yourself following the clear, uncomplicated step-by-step instructions that show you everything from laying turf to terraces, planting trees or building a raised bed or water feature.
Enjoy it month by month with his simple checklist of what to do when to keep your garden in shape.
RHS How to Create your Garden is about designing an outside space that is real, achievable, and right for you.
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A solidly reliable and practical guide to designing, constructing and maintaining your garden, written by an experienced gardener. * Gardens Illustrated * Frost, a Chelsea gold-medal winner, and
regular Gardeners' World presenter, is
a hand-holding guide, presenting his advice
in bite-sized chunks.This practical, well
illustrated book is mostly likely to appeal to
the neophyte starting from scratch. But there
is plenty the more experienced can learn from
Frost's detailed designs and planting plans. * Sunday Telegraph *
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978-0-241-44320-0 (9780241443200)
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A regular presenter on BBC TV's Gardeners' World, Adam has seven Chelsea Gold Medals to his name. He set up his own international garden design consultancy in 1996, followed by the Adam Frost Gardening School in 2017. In 2013 he helped set up the Homebase Garden Academy, which trains young employees for the RHS Level 1 award, and in 2014 he became an RHS Ambassador to focus on raising the profile of gardening among secondary-school students and community groups.
